April 14, 2009

What iPhone Apps Are Used Most? Hint: Not Games

When it comes to the type of applications iPhone owners use most, ones for checking the weather trump games, music, news and everything else, reports Mediapost.

According to an upcoming report on smartphone usage by online market research firm Compete, 39% of iPhone users cited weather-related apps as one of the three kinds of applications they use most frequently.

A quarter of iPhone users said Facebook's was one of three apps they accessed most often, followed by game apps, at 20%.

More than 10% pointed to music-related apps.

After that, the more than 100 individual apps or types of apps cited by users fell to single-digit percentages, with most less than 2%.